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Attention airline bathroom loiterers: The next generation of Airbus aircraft will track how long you've been in there.

It's all part of an effort to make commercial cabins a digitally-aware domain. The program is Airbus' bid to raise the Internet of Things - that buzz-phrase for connected household gadgets - to cruising altitude.Bloomberg

As cool as all of this may seem to you, the passenger, it's just another way for airlines to squeeze more profit out of operations. While data from these various areas will be sent to flight attendant tablets or smart phones in real time, the crunching of that data over time is where the real value lies.

"You can make the service more attentive," said Ronald Sweers, an Airbus cabin-products director. While the digital doodads are expected to simplify flight attendant workloads, their true value may lie in giving airlines more insights about what happens in the cabin.

 

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whoever calls those tiny cubby holes on planes a bathroom? Americans perhaps?

Will it also keep track of the members of the Mile High Club

and if you bring on crying children you are automatically sucked into the cargo hold

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